sūg

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse súga, from Proto-Germanic *sūganą, whence also Old English sūgan, Old Saxon sūgan, Old High German sūgan. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sug-, *suk-.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [sÿ̀ːɣ], [sɞ̀ɵ̯ːw], [sɛ̀u̯ːɣ]
    Rhymes: -ʉ̀ːɣ, -ʉ̀ːv, -ʉ̀ː

Verb

sūg (preterite saug, supine sugjä, past participle sujen)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To suck; suckle.
    Han saug mammän sännar, dilläs han var storär stölingen
    He suckled his mother until he was a big boy.

Alternative forms
  • su (weak conjugation)

References
  • Rietz, Johan Ernst, “sūg”, in Svenskt dialektlexikon: ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket [Swedish dialectal lexicon: a dictionary for the Swedish lects] (in Swedish), 1962 edition, Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups Förlag, published 1862–1867, page 696
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